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A film podcast where the focus is East Asian cinema.
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heroicpurgatory.bsky.social @heroicpurgatory.bsky.social · 22d
The film selected for the 2025 #HeroicPurgatory Halloween special is John Carpenter's Halloween (1978).

@jmhimara.bsky.social and @filmnohito.bsky.social discuss slasher genre standards, themes of women vs patriarchy and sequels!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Special - Halloween (1978)
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The film selected for the 2025 #HeroicPurgatory Halloween special is John Carpenter's Halloween (1978).

@jmhimara.bsky.social and @filmnohito.bsky.social discuss slasher genre standards, themes of women vs patriarchy and sequels!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Special - Halloween (1978)
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October 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The #HeroicPirgatroy podcast took a bit of a break over the summer because Jason @filmnohito.bsky.social was in Japan for Osaka Asian Film Festival's Expo edition / #OAFF2025.

Stay tuned for a podcast special with director interviews and views on upcoming and award-winning Asian films!
September 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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For episode 8 of season 5, which is dedicated to historical martial arts films, #HeroicPurgatory’s John @jmhimara.bsky.social and Jason @filmnohito.bsky.social return to Jackie Chan’s body of work with an episode dedicated to Project A (1983).

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S5E8 - Project A (1983)
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July 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Witness the Qing invasion of Joseon-era Korea alongside John @jmhimara.bsky.social and Jason @filmnohito.bsky.social as the boys takes on Kim Han-min’s historical actioner THE WAR OF THE ARROWS for Season 5 episode 7 of #HeroicPurgatory

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S5E7 - War of the Arrows
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July 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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John @jmhimara.bsky.social l and Jason @filmnohito.bsky.social ky.social are joined by Jack Eason @jackeason.bsky.social ocial of Optimism Vaccine to discuss Hideo Gosha's 1965 nihilistic chanbara THE SWORD OF THE BEAST for #HeroicPurgatory.

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S5E6 - The Sword of the Beast (with guest Jack Eason)
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July 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Continuing their Wuxia wanderings, John @jmhimara.bsky.social and Jason @filmnohito.bsky.social drop by Dragon Gate Inn, the 1967 movie directed by King Hu, and also pay a visit to Raymond Lee's 1992 remake, New Dragon Gate Inn, for #HeroicPurgatory.

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S5E5 - Dragon Inn
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June 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I was wary about a remake to Akira Kurosawa film but this review has sold it to me.

"[Spike] Lee has taken “High and Low” to new highs, delivering a soul-searching genre movie that entertains while also sounding the alarm about where the culture could be headed."

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‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Spike Lee’s Kurosawa-Inspired Kidnapping Drama Isn’t So Much a Remake as a Manifesto
Denzel Washington plays a music mogul who faces a series of big moral choices in a film whose sensational third act justifies remaking Akira Kurosawa.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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This episode of #HeroicPurgatory features John @jmhimara.bsky.social and Jason @filmnohito.bsky.social examining Zhang Yimou's 2002 wuxia film, Hero.

Zhang's first wuxia, this is a visually sumptuous and epic tale of assassins and the forging of a nation.

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S5E4 - Hero (2002)
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May 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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In a double-bill, John @jmhimara.bsky.social and Jason @filmnohito.bsky.social cover 13 Assassins via the 1963 Eiichi Kudo black-and-white original and the 2010 Takashi Miike action-packed and bawdy remake.

#HeroicPurgatory

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S5E3 - 13 Assassins
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May 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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John @jmhimara.bsky.social, Jason @filmnohito.bsky.social, and Paul Quinn of hangulcelluloid.com go to Korea, 1978, for the film Once Upon a Time in High School: The Spirit of Jeet Kune Do 말죽거리 잔혹사 (2004), the Yoo Ha high school romance action drama.

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S5E2 - Once Upon a Time in High School
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April 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Season 5 of #HeroicPurgatory focuses on historical martial arts films and it kicks off with Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury (1972).

@jmhimara.bsky.social and @filmnohito.bsky.social discuss the historical and cultural backdrop, action, acting, and more here:

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S5E1 - Fist of Fury
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April 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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In a tribute episode to David Lynch, #HeroicPurgatory's @jmhimara.bsky.social and @filmnohito.bsky.social celebrate the life and works of the filmmaker, musician, and artist, and talk about what he and his works meant to them and wider cinema culture.

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Special - Remembering David Lynch
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February 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Hello 2025!

But not so fast! In this special, John @jmhimara.bsky.social and Jason @filmnohito.bsky.social talk about their favourite films of 2024 and cover social dramas, dystopian sci-fi, arthouse indies, documentary, body horror, and lots of beavers...

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Special - Best of 2024
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February 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Major news for fans of great cinema - it looks likely that classics from Hong Kong's golden age of the 80s and 90s are going to be given lavish new releases in the west.

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John Woo, Chow Yun-fat Classics Among 156-Film Golden Princess Library Acquired by Shout! Studios (EXCLUSIVE)
Shout! Studios acquires 156 Hong Kong action classics from Golden Princess, including John Woo, Chow Yun-Fat hits like 'Hard Boiled' and 'The Killer.'
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January 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Season 4 of #HeroicPurgatory covered female action heroes. As it ends, @jmhimara.bsky.social and @filmnohito.bsky.social head to Texas for a story about ethnicity, identity, and fraught family history in John Sayles' 1996 neo-noir western Lone Star

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Special - Lone Star (1996)
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December 16, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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An utterly fantastic film! Check out the Heroic Purgatory episode covering it!

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filmsradiance.bsky.social Radiance Films @filmsradiance.bsky.social · Dec 4
UK/US: It’s a Blu-ray world premiere for THE EEL, which won master filmmaker Shohei Imamura (Vengeance is Mine) his second Palme d'Or.

A transfixing drama starring Koji Yakusho (Perfect Days), this release features new interviews and booklet with art by @timetomorrow.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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Season 4 is all about female action heroes and THE INSPECTOR WEARS SKIRTS fits in neatly. This could be part of a double-bill episode but the question is... what to pair it up with...?

Maybe @jmhimara.bsky.social might have some ideas...

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filmnohito.bsky.social Jason M @filmnohito.bsky.social · Nov 12
The Inspector Wears Skirts starts and ends with stellar action with Hong Kong comedy in the middle. It's about young women training to be female commandos.

It's a battle between the sexes as they overcome relationship woes, frisky men, a so-so musical sequence and casual sexism to beat the bad guys
November 13, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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Hello, beastly boys and ghastly ghouls!

For Halloween, #HeroicPurgatory's @jmhimara.bsky.social and @filmnohito.bsky.social unearth Roger Corman's THE RAVEN, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM and further flesh-creeping Edgar Allan Poe films featuring Vincent Price

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Special - The Corman Poe Cycle
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October 31, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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Staying with the female action heroes theme of #HeroicPrugatory's season 4, @jmhimara.bsky.social and @filmnohito.bsky.social take on Ridley Scott's 1979 science-fiction horror ALIEN, which features fan favourite Ellen Ripley and atmospheric sets and aliens
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Special - Alien (1979)
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October 4, 2024 at 6:55 PM